Sorry, dude, but cry me a river. Having an equal mix of relationships is the middle ground.

Because, honestly, some of us gay folks are sick and tired of seeing all the straight people. I mean, ewww. No offense to all you straight people, but it grosses me out.

Seriously, I sit down to watch an action movie with a badass female lead and all of a sudden, she's screwing some guy. WTF? Was that necessary? I would have been fine if she just kept beating the hell out of people. I mean, I won't hope she'd be a lesbian. I'm never going to get that, but I'd take a total lack of romance.

And never mind the action movies, which I know are for a straight male audience.

What about TV shows? Take Rizolli and Isles, which is quite possibly the most lesbian show on television. Ever. I swear it's gayer than the L Word and that was "about" lesbians. But no. I can't have my very gay female buddy cop drama. They keep trying to make the characters be straight. Ewww. If I have to watch another male love interest on that show with his total lack of chemistry, I'm going to throw things. Dear writers, the female leads have awesome chemistry. Stop trying to make them straight.

But really. All this stuff has been shoved down my throat my whole life. And you know what I do? I deal with it. And I yell at my television. And I hope that some day, those characters will actually represent my life and my family. And I don't generally complain about all the straight people I'm forced to see because majority groups are usually too blinded by their privilege to think about what life is like for the minority.

If I had a penny for every time a heterosexual relationship was shoved in my face without warning, I'd be richer than everyone in the world combined.

Check your privileged self at the door, sir.

The New York Times agrees with this approach, and they seem to have one of the better websites around: "It’s our preference to use a text editor, like HomeSite, TextPad or TextMate, to “hand code” everything, rather than to use a wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) HTML and CSS authoring program, like Dreamweaver. We just find it yields better and faster results." Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/21/business/media/21askthetimes.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin

You obviously haven't heard of the musical Zombie Prom...

I'm not so sure the AC was talking about the sex offender. Especially not if the AC is female. Not that you should kill yourself if you're raped. You lived. You should deal with that and try to actually live. But honestly? I think murder victims have it easier than rape victims. I think I color this discussion differently because I'm female, but to me, rape is worse than murder. Most people on /. won't understand because they're male. Rape is not so much of an imminent threat to them. But trust me on this one. Rape is worse. At least if you murder someone, they're dead and don't have to deal with it. Gone? Yes. Years of consequences? No. When someone is raped, they never recover. My friend's mother is was raped as a teenager and to this day will not go back to New York because that's where it happened. It happened decades ago. And I don't know. I think that the person you knew and loved is gone after rape too. They die and become someone else. Someone kinda like them is still there, only irreparably damaged. It can take years to have a healthy relationship again and that assumes they ever will. Rape is a complete and total violation of the self. It's someone saying to you "You are not a person." People internalize that. And worse? Rapists rarely get prosecuted, nevermind convicted. Many don't even report them because they think people won't believe them or because they just want to forget it. Or because it was their "boyfriend" or whatever. You go to trial and they're going to find any way they can to slander you. They're going to say you wanted it. Or you were dressed like a whore. Or you're lying. Or all of these things. They'll try to say that somehow, it is your fault. It's a total assault on the self even if the bastard does get convicted. And that's besides the fact that these things are already internalized in many women. I know I see this differently because I'm female. And I know no one is going to understand. And I know that there are false rape accusations. But the reality is that there are far too many real ones.